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«The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.»
«Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, / Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?»
«Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.»
«Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.»
«That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.»
«Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.»
«Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavours to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.»
«Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.»
«Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.»
«Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any degree; only about as much as is used in the lowest kinds of poetry. Some penetration, accuracy, and coloring, will fit a man for the task, if he can give the application which is necessary.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
accuracy, coloring, historian, penetration, quiescent, requisite, to the lowest degree
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